Former Dallas ISD Trustee Ron Price, seen here during a 2008 DISD board meeting, was hired as interim superintendent of the embattled Prime Prep Academy at an emergency meeting Wednesday evening. Prime Prep is the charter school co-founded by former Dallas Cowboys star Deion Sanders.

Former Dallas ISD trustee Ron Price was hired as the interim superintendent of the embattled Prime Prep Academy at an emergency meeting Wednesday evening.

The board also voted to suspend the charter school’s executive director. The moves marked the second big leadership shake-up this week. Superintendent Rachel Sanders was fired at Monday’s board meeting.

Three of the board’s five members attended the meeting and voted to hire Price. The move could lead to the reinstatement of school co-founder Deion Sanders, whom Rachel Sanders fired for unknown reasons this month. The two are not related.

The 5:30 p.m. meeting in Fort Worth was called with only about two hours’ notice, which is permitted by state law in certain circumstances.

The meeting followed claims that Carlisle was essentially sabotaging the school. The meeting notice said she “erroneously” told parents Prime Prep was discontinuing its sports program; told parents and students they were “better served by leaving the academy”; and fired the only person who maintained the school’s website.

Carlisle, who did not attend the meeting, had been in the position for about three weeks. Reached at home, she said the accusations are false. She said she had been eager to work with families at the school but will recognize the authority of the board.

Price was a charismatic and controversial trustee on the Dallas school board from 1997 to 2009, when he stepped down to challenge Carolyn Davis for her seat on the Dallas City Council. He eventually lost in a runoff.

He could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.

Board president T. Chris Lewis said Price’s contract has not been finalized but his salary will be similar to Rachel Sanders’ salary, which was $95,000.

Lewis said that by changing leadership the school is sending a message that “it’s time to get people here who want to move the school forward.”

He said it’s time for the school to get back on course, bring the Dallas and Fort Worth campuses together as one school, and get rid of infighting.

But some parents are not willing to wait.

Edna Phillips said her family plans to pull her daughter and nephew out of the Fort Worth campus before they fall further behind.

“There’s a lack of communication; [some] things they said they’d provide to the students … are not available,” Phillips said.

She said the school promised better education, but if her children were to take the state standardized tests, she’s not sure they’d be prepared.

The lack of communication was evident in the Wednesday meeting. It convened an hour after the posted time because board members were searching for a room on the Fort Worth campus to hold the meeting, unaware that it was scheduled simultaneously with the school’s Christmas concert.

About 15 angry parents, who said they received no emails about the meeting, attended.

The charter school, which opened in fall 2012, has been in nearly constant turmoil this semester as different factions fight for control.

Former State Board of Education member Charlie Garza, a Deion Sanders supporter, was fired in recent months as an assistant superintendent after less than a year at the school.

Since October, Deion Sanders has been fired, rehired and fired again from his job as football coach at the school he helped create. The first firing occurred soon after he was accused of assaulting the school’s chief financial officer. But the retired NFL star was almost immediately rehired that time.

Prime Prep’s other co-founder, D.L. Wallace, resigned last month following public attacks on him by Deion Sanders. Earlier, Deion Sanders had proposed that he take control of the Dallas campus, while Wallace managed the Fort Worth campus.

Prime Prep has one of the nation’s best high school basketball teams, and its football team recently won a Texas Christian Athletic League state championship.

On the academic side, Prime Prep hasn’t fared as well. It was among the 20 percent of Texas charter schools that failed to meet state academic standards.

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